Belmont Shore

[UPDATED with Jury Rules FOR Douglas Zerby Family:] Long Beach Police Officers Negligent

See the update at the end of this post about the jury ruling for the dead man's family.ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 3, 2:13 P.M.: A $21.5 million civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Long Beach over cops fatally shooting a guy holding a gardening water nozzle on a friend's Belmont Sho ... More >>

Mee So Hungry Closes in Long Beach; Seaside Salad Opens

I've never tried Mee So Hungry, but I cringed a little every time I passed by it on Belmont Shore's Second Street. I took a picture of it once on the way to another restaurant, never really deciding then whether I thought the 2 Live Crew allusion was stupid or clever, but I never gave it a second th ... More >>

John Melvin Walker Pleads Guilty to Secretly Owning Pot Clinic Chain and Avoiding Taxes

A San Clemente man pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to secretly owning a chain of nine medical marijuana clinics in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Because John Melvin "Pops" Walker has drug-related priors and was caught with firearms, the 56-year-old was looking at the possibility of l ... More >>

Rand Foster: The Vinyl Prophet

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Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival

Belmont Shore

Long Beach Lunch: Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery

Most people that live in Long Beach love the fact that there aren't a lot of corporate chain restaurants here. Bustling dining districts like Belmont Shore and Bixby Knolls are full of quality, locally owned eateries, leaving the city's lone Chili's, Outback Steakhouse and Islands locations to serve ... More >>

Long Beach Lunch: Long Beach Marché in the New Long Beach Airport Concourse

Attention: the future of airport food is here. And the best part is, it's exactly like food in the real world, down to the prices and all. I discovered it on a casual travel day a few weeks after the Long Beach Airport's new $45 million concourse began hosting passengers in early December. Hearing a ... More >>

New UCI Archive Shows How Truly Gay (and L, B & T) Orange Country Truly Is and Was

Orange County isn't exactly San Francisco, West Hollywood or Palm Springs when it comes to a thriving LGBT community, but we will always have Laguna Beach, which was a gay mecca for years before gays were priced out, and nearby Belmont Shore in Long Beach. There's also now a local LGBT Archive at UC ... More >>

South of Nick's: Cal-Mex Class

The San Clemente hotspot proves that rice-bean-chips-margaritas Mexican doesn't have to be derivative

Feds Arrest 12 In Alleged Pot Ring Operating in OC & LBC

Twelve people were arrested this morning for conspiracy to distribute marijuana in a case that federal authorities claim involves a ring of pot dispensaries that operated in both Orange County and Long Beach. A 31-page indictment released by the U.S. attorneys office today claims that the shops--nin ... More >>

Notes Saying "Go Back to Baja Wetbacks" Placed on Cars of Latinos in Belmont Shore

Long Beach is a great town, a town that likes to pride itself on its diversity, unlike us Neanderthals over in Orange County. Nevertheless, it's a place that boils with racial tension from time to time, as the city has turned from Iowa-on-the-Beach to one of the most diverse towns in the country.&nb ... More >>

Tonight in Belmont Shore: "Stroll & Savor"

I'm late in posting this. So late that if you're reading this right now, you have about half an hour before the last Stroll & Savor event of the summer starts, that is if you're not going to to the KCRW Good Food and Stick A Fork In It Happy Hour, which you should. The final Stroll & Savor' ... More >>

On the Line: Arthur Gonzalez of Roe Restaurant & Fish Market, Part One

A couple of chairs flipped right side up in the middle of a gutted dining space. That is how we roll with Chef Gonzalez in his unfinished room, also known as Phase Two in the grand scheme of things at Roe in Belmont Shore. Thanks to some dedicated parking spots, we start our session on time and with ... More >>

Scottish-Themed Breastaurant Gets OK To Open In Orange

The Register wrote today that The Tilted Kilt, a breastaurant in the same vein as Hooters but with a Scottish theme, has been approved to move into the empty space vacated by Johnny Carino's at the Stadium Promenade Center in Orange at 1625 W. Katella Ave. It will be the first Tilted Kilt in OC. T ... More >>

Roe Your Boat to Roe Restaurant

McKenna's former chef opens a new seafood restaurant on Belmont Shore

On the Line: Chris Grodach of The Corner, Part Two

He builds furniture, owns his own business, and plants gardens. And after our meeting, Chris would meet with The Corner's bartender to practice all the cocktails on their drink menu. Staying in one place is not his specialty, but we wouldn't want him any other way.Read our interview with Chris Groda ... More >>

California Shabu Shabu Expands To Long Beach

To me, Belmont Shore has always had the highest concentration of interesting restaurants in the sprawling metropolis of Long Beach. And these days, it also has  become a hot bed of activity, as the old is cycled out to make way for the new.  A few months ago Simmzy's moved in to the old S ... More >>

Roe Restaurant And Fish Market Opens in Belmont Shore

Roe Restaurant And Fish Market has opened on Second Street where Naples ends and Belmont Shore begins. As I mentioned in a previous post, the seafood eatery, which takes the place formerly occupied by The Dog House and Barry's Beach Shack, boasts a legion of chefs including Cody Requejo (t ... More >>

Simmzy's Is Breaking Down the Wall

The Manhattan Beach icon has replaced Shore House Café, and all is now right in Belmont Shore

New Seafood Restaurant & Fish Market To Open In Belmont Shore

On Second Street where Naples ends and Belmont Shore begins, there used to be a great hot dog joint called The Dog House, which was itself an offshoot and subsidiary of Barry's Beach Shack next door. The Dog House didn't last long and neither did Barry's after it folded.Now we see its replacement: a ... More >>

Popular Manhattan Beach Gastropub To Open Second Location in Belmont Shore This Thursday

We OC-dwellers may not yet be familiar with Simmzy's, but the people of Manhattan Beach are. It's one of their most popular gastropubs and now that popularity has allowed the restaurant to expand southward into Long Beach's Belmont Shore.

Long Beach Offers Collective Punishment

How the city's botched marijuana lottery screwed its winners and losers alike

Tavern On 2 Shows Who's On Second

This Belmont Shores gem is a gastropub's gastropub

On the Line: Hung Tram of La Creperie Cafe, Part Two

Photo by Laila Derakhshanian​Our conversation with La Creperie Cafe's resident chef continues, as he dishes about being his own mechanic and crafting the perfect crepe. To catch up on part one, click here. If you're a dessert fan, you won't want to miss Thursday's installment. Hardest lesson you'v ... More >>

Victims of Brutality Protest Awards Ceremony for Long Beach Cops

​The ANSWER Coalition is busy trying to sway public opinion against America going to war in Libya, let alone continuing to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. But a local off-shoot of the grass-roots national movement (which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is not so preoccupied that it can ... More >>

Sublime's Former Drummer and DJ Marshall Goodman, Remembers Bradley Nowell

Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, who died 15 years ago today, left behind a legacy that is intrinsically tied to Long Beach and the rest of Orange County. This week's cover story pays tribute to the man who put Garden Grove on the map, who sang about the perils of date rape and invented the surf p ... More >>

Long Beach Man Fatally Shot for Holding a Water Nozzle Had His Arms Outstretched As Though Pointing a Gun, Police Chief Says

Long Beach Police DepartmentThe garden hose nozzle that police thought was a gun. ​Last December, 35-year-old LBC resident Douglas Zerby was shot and killed by police while holding a "weapon" that turned out to be a garden-hose nozzle.Because there's been so much interest in the case, with rall ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Getting a Clue About the New Fingerprints

[Mental Notes] Also, a sneak peek at the impending Café Calacas

Men at Fingerprints Last Night

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​MenFebruary 3, 2011FingerprintsClick here to see the photos!There's not much on the walls and all the merch that isn't CDs or vinyl is nowhere to be found, but if you squint long and hard enough you can see that the new Fingerprints location near the intersection of ... More >>

Letters

Fingerprints to Leave Belmont Shore

[Mental Notes] We predicted KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas lineup, and an interview with our local Justin Bieber

Fingerprints and Portfolio to Join Forces and Move to Long Beach's East Village Arts District

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyDarker My Love at a Fingerprints in-store​According to the Press-Telegram,  Fingerprints record store and Portfolio coffeehouse are teaming up to build a new location downtown. Fingerprints has been at its present location in Belmont Shore for 18 years, but it's moving ... More >>

Parking Wars

[Hey, You!] Big-ass car, even bigger sense of entitlement

The Dog House Rules

From kielbasa to hot links to Habanero Tequila Chicken, this Long Beach sausage shack puts the hot in hot dog

Red Velvet: A Cupcake Postmortem

Trends is dining have an amazing ability to take a long-standing food item and, through a series of twists and maybe a bit of recontextualizing, make it ubiquitous and, eventually, tiresome. Not matter how delicious a food might be, if it gets caught up in the zeitgeist, the over-saturation point is ... More >>

This Saturday: Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival

​It's not like you're going to be in short supply of chocolate, what with Valentines just around the corner; but if you just can't wait a week to dive into that heart-shaped box, drive to Belmont Shore this weekend. Their 6th Annual Chocolate Festival is happening this Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00P ... More >>

Hide and Seek Grand Opening

Hide and Seek Boutique

[Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Diversions: Greetings From Jered Weaver

The Women of the Long Beach Craft Mafia Know the Handmade Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Motor Heads

Belmont Shore Car Show

Dave Martins 7 Favorite Things

Top Chef finalist

Hey There, Cupcake!

The women behind Frosted Cupcakery want to see your sweet tooth

Long Beach

Sweet Jills

Nice Dish!

100 things you should put in your mouth

Creeped-Out & Alcoholic

The Starbucks Solution

Mike Sheldrake figured he was dead when Starbucks opened two stores near his indie coffeehouse. Now his business is up 40 percent.

Bye-Bye, butt floss

Wahine carves the new publishing style